You know why you are here
So begins season 2 of the donburnside.com podcast. I already have the first 2 episodes ready for the feed, listen in for details. Also, this means I’m going to be doing at least 10 of these. I hope you stick around, I think it’s going to be fun!
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Light posts at sunset
Sure sounds like freedom of speech to me. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/01/13/meta-pixelfed-links
2 sets of 8 shoulder press. That’s my new record! #fitness
It was the day before lock down began. Was attending a spring training day at Salt River Field on one of the rainiest days I have ever seen in Arizona. The game was cancelled and everyone went to a local pub to have beers together. Turns out, that was the last time for a few years.
After that day all of the bad things started happening. I’m not going to list them here to avoid any triggering, but you know. And, with everything going on, I felt like if I were going to post to the internet, then for sure I had to speak about what was happening. Except I didn’t want to do that. I didn’t want to post that kind of stuff here or speak about it on any of the podcasts. It was weird for me to suddenly not want to share publicly on the internet.
So I stopped. Or, at least, slowed down.
A ton of stuff has happened in the almost 7 years since. We bought a house, sold that house, bought another house. Got married in that house. Changed jobs. Changed MINIs. Sold my MINI. Had a mental breakdown.
You caught that last one, right? 2024 ended up being all about me. Spent the year in weekly therapy, working on me. Journaled a lot. Spent a few thousand miles on my ebike. Continued working on me. Finally had a breakout, where suddenly, normal was the new feeling. Not angry, not argumentative. Just normal. That happened during one of my last therapy appointments last year. I told my therapist to lead with that next time!
To keep this from getting longer, I’m back. Ok, not entirely, but I am, once again, leaning into my super powers, realizing that they are super powers and remembering how I used to create and work on my personal projects. This is the new beginning of that.
I have finished federating the site! That means there is more than 1 way to follow along!
Still have a few tweaks to make. Stick around and watch. It’s going to be fun!
Good morning. There is coffee, fire and sunshine.
It’s amazing! My skin is clearer and I’m sleeping better. I’ve been itchy from the withdrawals, but that was to be expected.
But seriously.
After deciding to allow hate speech on their platforms earlier this week, I decided that it was well past time for me to vamos! I personally didn’t have any problems on Instagram or Threads, and I’m slightly bummed because my algorithm was tuned perfectly for me on both of those platforms.
Facebook, however, has been steaming pile of crap for years. If I go in and scroll, a lot, I only see posts from about 7-10 people that I know. Maybe. I never see posts from any of my family members. I never get notifications about the people that I’ve asked for notifications from. I also know that place is already full of misinformation and hate based on links I’ve been sent to the trash that Facebook hosts.
I’m still updating the site. Scroll down and you will find where to follow and subscribe since I won’t be posting links to Meta sites. This site has been federated and it’s working! I still have some tweaks to get it working here the way that I want, but expect that to happen soon.
Testing one more time. Feeling cute, will delete later.
What happens if I post via Ivory? Where does it go?